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Oral history interview with Larry Fink, 2023 February 6-8

Fink, Larry

Photographer, Educator

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Collection Information

Size: 29 sound files (6 hrs.), digital, wav

Summary: An interview with Larry Fink conducted 2023 February 6-8, by Benjamin Gillespie for the Archives of American Art, at At Fink's studio in Martins Creek, Pennsylvania and at the Allentown Art Museum in Allentown, Pennsylvania.­

Biographical/Historical Note

Interviewee Larry Fink (1941-) is an educator and photographer based in Martins Creek, Pennsylvania and New York, N.Y. Fink is known for his incisive documentation of etiquette in different social strata; he is especially known for his party photography and street photography. He taught at Bard College for several decades.

Provenance

This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.

Language Note

English .

How to Use This Collection

This interview is open for research. Contact Reference Services for more information.

The Archives of American Art makes its Oral History Program interviews available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. Quotation, reproduction and publication of the recording is governed by restrictions. If an interview has been transcribed, researchers must quote from the transcript. If an interview has not been transcribed, researchers must quote from the recording. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Larry Fink, 2023 February 6-8. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

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